Brexit Is Teaching Britain A Lesson In Humility; Boris Johnson finalizes EU Exit Deal!

[Cognito]

Seems UK won't a have trade deal with the US till 2022 lmao

 

[88m3]

Seems UK won't a have trade deal with the US till 2022 lmao

It should be dependent on Ireland unifying

 

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[bnew]

lmaooo





Move to EU to avoid Brexit costs, firms told

Reality is stranger than fiction, ths is the type of stuff that wouldn't even make it out of a screenwriters room because it's just too ridiculous.

 

[Carl Tethers]

Reality is stranger than fiction, ths is the type of stuff that wouldn't even make it out of a screenwriters room because it's just too ridiculous.

The Daily Express said it's a "clever ploy" for businesses to do this Brexiteers are insane

 

[88m3]

EU citizens offered financial incentives to leave UK

 

[jj23]

EU citizens offered financial incentives to leave UK

Lol so now the UK is spending more taxpayer money to get folks out of the country. They really think this is going to help.

Awesome. No words...

 

[hashmander]

if people would learn from things like this it would be one thing, but they'll just end up doubling down on the ignorance.

 

[TheAlbionist]

Lol so now the UK is spending more taxpayer money to get folks out of the country. They really think this is going to help.

Awesome. No words...

I have one for our government paying foreigners to leave the country.

Fascist.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Samantha Cameron business hit by post-Brexit 'teething issues'

 

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This headline must confuse a lot of European nationalists

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

 

[Payday23]

 

[jj23]

Interesting. If you thought the EU didnt care what happened with Brexit, this rash move puts all that to bed.

The EU has said it is “not triggering the safeguard clause” to block Covid vaccine exports from the bloc to Northern Ireland after widespread condemnation of the move.

The EU’s initial decision to trigger a Brexit deal clause to place controls on the export of vaccines sparked criticism on both sides of Irish border and led to frantic talks including a call between the UK and Ireland to avert a full-scale crisis.

On news that the move to trigger article 16 of the Northern Ireland protocol was not going ahead, the Irish taoiseach, Micheál Martin, tweeted that it was a “welcome decision by the European commission” and “a positive development given the many challenges we face in tackling Covid-19”.

That at this stage would basically have been close to an act of war.

That the EU went with this as their FIRST option now makes them look like bullies, and is fodder for Boris Johnson, who can now use this example to point to the EU being deliberately difficult and cement support against the EU.

Horrible, horrible decision by the EU .

Everyone needs vaccines, but it shouldn't be discounted that the UK took a big risk on the viability of these vaccines long before other countries were willing to, and that's why things are where there are with the AstraZeneca supply. The reasonable thing here would be to negotiate with the UK as it would benefit everyone if some of the vaccine was shared, not try to bully the company into breaking contracts.

 

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Interesting. If you thought the EU didnt care what happened with Brexit, this rash move puts all that to bed.

The UK primed the narrative of this being being primarily connected to some rancour over Brexit, history (WWII) and historic competition when I do not see it being reported that way on the German side.

Germany/EU placed an order in Autumn 2020, from what I heard. If you have two open orders are you at liberty to fully fulfil the first, while 100% ignoring your obligations under the second (also behind schedule) order? Do people imagine that AZ will deliver every single vial to the UK before delivering any to the EU. I am guessing not. These were both advance orders, with later delivery, rather than the direct purchase of stock.

If AZ owed the UK 10 million and the EU 20 million then the normal behaviour would be to inconvenience both customers to roughly equivalent degrees, with some positive skew towards the UK for ordering earlier. During periods of oil shortage, the leading nations, all expect to get a percentage less than normal. They do not expect for deliveries to shrink to zero, while other leading countries are serviced. So if AZ had promised both parties 2million/month and they were operating 50% under capacity they would deliver 1million to each rather than just the total production of 2million to only one.

If it is being suggested that AZ is fair in unilaterally deciding who to deliver to then that means that they could very well stop supplying the UK altogether, until after it fulfilled all of the EU orders. I can't imagine that the UK would think that fair and proper.

The EU is asking for deliveries (exports) to be catalogued so they can gauge the relative rate that AZ is being delivered to the EU/UK.

Tracking that information would I can imagine be needed for later reclamation (legal or not) or just even to fully assess their position after the event.